On the presidential campaign trail: A young girl is overcome with emotion when she meets US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during a campaign event at the Alliant Energy Amphitheater in Dubuque, Iowa. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

A house is surrounded by burnt brush and trees, after surviving a wildfire in Washington State, US. The fire near Cle Elum has burned dozens of homes, causing about 900 people to evacuate. Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP

Horses are paraded in Siena ahead of the annual Palio race, where since the 1600s, 10 riders compete bareback around Siena's shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Striking miners gather on a hillside at the Lonmin mine near Marikana, South Africa. Ongoing violence that started last Friday has seen 10 people killed, with no end to the strike in sight. Photograph: Jon Gambrell/AP

A woman carries her son on her back and a rooster in her hand as she arrives by boat from the eastern town of Jeremie in the Port-a-Prince harbor, Haiti. Residents from the eastern Haitian town make the 14 hour journey weekly, to sell goods in the capital and return with food and supplies. Photograph: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP

All aboard. Bangladeshi people climb roofs of boats at Sadar ghat launch terminal as they head back home to their villages to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with family members. Photograph: Monirul Alam/Zuma/Corbis

The son of Palestinian Paralympic athlete Khamis Zaqout pushes him on a wheelchair in Gaza City. Wheelchair-bound Zaqout from Gaza, lost the use of his legs while working on a building site in Israel two decades ago. He is Palestine's best hope for a Paralympic medal in London this month and will compete in the shot put, discus and javelin. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Striking miners chant slogans as they hold weapons and machetes at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. The unrest at the Lonmin mine began Friday, as some 3,000 workers walked off the job over pay in what management described as an illegal strike. Photograph: Denis Farrell/AP

Flagging it up: a boy tries to control an Indian national flag from the wind as it is installed at a wholesale market as part of India's Independence Day celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Photograph: Babu/Reuters

Overcrowded passenger boats on the Buriganga River in Bangladesh today. Millions of residents in Dhaka have started the exodus home from the capital city ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday. Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Return of the hero: Ugandan Olympic marathon gold medal winner Stephen Kiprotich, is met by his wife and relatives at Entebbe international airport near Kampala. Kiprotich's win has been deeply felt in Uganda, which had not won gold since the Munich Games in 1972. Photograph: Stephen Wandera/AP

A wounded man arrives at a local hospital after an bomb explosion in Herat, Afghanistan, today. A bomb rigged as a bicycle detonated in a bazaar injuring 14 civilians, officials said. Photograph: Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images

Home from...er? Four villas built on the roof of a shopping centre in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, China. According to reports, space is at a premium in the busy city of nearly four million, leading residents to build villas on the top of the 8-storey commercial centre. It is not known whether the villas were built with a government licence. Photograph: Bo Way/EPA

For these that didn't have enough bull running in Pamplona there's also the Falces festival in northern Spain. Here a reveler tries to protect himself as the bull leaps over him after falling while running. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

A Muslim woman fans herself inside a train as other passengers are reflected on a window, at Senen train station in Jakarta, Indonesia. The mass exodus out of the capital and other major cities in the world's most populous Muslim country is underway as millions are heading home to their villages to celebrate Eid al-Fitr this weekend. The holiday marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Photograph: Dita Alangkara/AP

A child plays with floodwater inside a flooded house in Manila. Four people have been killed as another tropical storm swept across the Philippines, triggering landslides in the mountainous north and dumping more heavy rain on the flood-battered capital. Photograph: Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images

Also in South Africa a police vehicle takes position as miners stage a sit-in close to a platinum mine in Rustenburg, north-west of Johannesburg today. Ten people were killed in clashes at the mine between rival unions, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the smaller Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). Eight Lonmin employees died, while two of the police officers sent to quell the unrest were killed in two days of violence which started off as an illegal strike on 10 August called by one of the unions. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The trial of a South African man accused of shooting a bride to death on her honeymoon, in a killing allegedly arranged by her husband has begun in Cape Town. Xolile Mngeni pleaded not guilty today to charges over the November 2010 death of Swedish woman Anni Dewani. Photograph: Schalk van Zuydam/AP

A bright-eyed newborn baby elephant during its first outing in front of the public at Berlin Zoo this morning. The female will be named "Anchali" and was born last Sunday. Photograph: TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS

Oops: a wakeboarder falls off his board on a lake in Munich, southern Germany. Meteorologists forecast high temperatures for the next few days in southern Germany. Photograph: Victoria BONN-MEUSER/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian soldiers investigate the scene after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a hotel in Damascus where UN observers are staying. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. Photograph: Muzaffar Salman/AP

Another ship this time a slow boat home for over 200 German athletes who took part in the Olympics. The cruise liner MS Deutschland arrives in Hamburg harbour this morning. Photograph: Philipp Guelland/AP

Tugs tow the container ship Hamburg Express as it arrives in Hamburg's harbour early this morning. The ship, measuring 366 metres in length and 48 metres wide, is one of the world's biggest container vessels. Photograph: Morris MacMatzen/Reuters

South Korean students attend a rally to mark the 67th Independence Day in front of Japanese embassy in Seoul. Korea was liberated from Japan's 35-year colonial rule in 1945. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

A war veteran leads others clad in costumes of the imperial Japanese army during a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to pray for war victims. Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited the controversial war shrine on 15 August on the anniversary of Tokyo's surrender during the second world war. Photograph: Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images

Children take part in India's Independence Day celebrations in front of the historic Red Fort in Delhi, where the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, is due to address the nation. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Competitors swim during the 29th Embrun Man triathlon in Embrun, southeastern France. The Embrun Man is considered as one of the hardest triathlon events with a swim of 3.8km followed by a 188km cycle ride and a 42km marathon. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images

Bereaved family members and relatives of the war dead offer flowers before the main altar decorated with huge bank of chrysanthemums as they offer prayers during a memorial service at Budokan Martial Arts Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

The first colour image taken from orbit showing Nasa's Curiosity rover on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the robot is beginning to investigate. Photograph: Nasa/Reuters

The Dominican Republic's Felix Sanchez (L) and Luguelin Santos show their gold and silver medals during an honour ceremony for athletes returning from the London 2012 Olympic Games at the National Palace in Santo Domingo last night. Photograph: Reuters

Two Panamanian Golden frogs are seen on biologist Heidi Ross' hand during the Golden Frog Day in the Nispero Zoo at the Valle de Anton in Panama. The Golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) is one of Panama's national symbols. Photograph: Carlos Jasso/Reuters

A Muslim woman praying last night in front of the Dome of the Rock, on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City during the holy month of Ramadan. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters